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prayer before meditation

Father, you created
me
and put me on
earth
for a purpose.
Jesus you died for
me
and called me
to complete your
work.
Holy Spirit,
you help me
carry
out the work
for
which I was
created
and called.
In your presence
and name, Father,
Son,
and Holy
Spirit,
I begin my
meditation.
May all
my thoughts
and
inspirations
have
their origin in you and
be directed
to
your greater honor
and glory.
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Mark Link, S.J.Loyola University Chicago, IL
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saturday / wk 13 / ord / july 5 wrong strategy
Jesus said, "You don't patch an old coat with a piece of new cloth. It will shrink and make the hole bigger hole in the coat. Matthew 9:16
A cowhand had six drinks and went to the cinema to see "The Peril's of Pauline". Just as he walked in, the villain was pursuing the lovely Pauline. The cowhand drew his gun and emptied it into the villain on the screen. But the only thing he achieved was to rid- dle the screen with holes. Later, someone said, "The guy's heart was in the right place, but his strat- egy was all wrong. If he wanted to stop the villain, he should've shot the projector--the source of the problem--not its shadow.
How flawed is my strategy for try- ing to turn my life over to Jesus? Am I, perhaps, failing to attack the source of the problem?
It is never too late to be what you might have been. Author George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) ___________________________
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week 134 - day 7
sunday / wk 14 / ord / july 6 how gentle am I?
Jesus said, "Learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit. Matthew 11:29
The Welsh monk St. Malo was working outside. He began to per- spire. So he took off his coat and laid it aside. At the end of the day, when he went back to pick it up, he discovered that a mother wren had built a nest inside it. The saint's gentleness gave him no alternative, but to leave his coat in the field and not disturb the nest. Some say the story is a pius legend. Be that as it may, it has a modern parallel. Sometime ago, the newspapers reported how a participant in a golf tournament "gave up a chance to win, because he would not play his ball out of a thrush's nest."
These stories invite me to inven- tory my own gentleness toward people and nature.
You can tell all you need to know about a nation by the way it treats animals and beaches. Frank Deford
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